Politicians and public figures like to opine about all kinds of subjects, but only a few are clever enough to come up with anything memorable. president franklin delano roosevelt is well-known for this iconic aphorism "we have nothing to fear but fear itself." fill in the blank with the correct punctuation. a) , b) c) : d) ;

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were a wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.